Sisters throw unique jewel into lake; killed and thrown after it

Motif

Sisters throw unique jewel into lake; killed and thrown after it.

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Punishment fitted to crime. · view the constellation · filed as Q582.1

ask the rhapsode about this motif →

Scholars’ trail — 2references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

Irish mythCross.
general Revue Celtique XVI 76

Within the index

Filed under Fitting death as punishment. (Cf. Q411, D2060.)

Filed beside it

Man who brings fire to his house at devil's instigation burns to death. (Cf. Q233.)Murderer killed by his own spear. (Cf. Q211.)Man dies from drop of blood of pet hound he has killed. (Cf. Q211.6.)Man boasts he fears saint no more than hornless sheep; killed by hornless sheep. (Cf. Q333.1.)Woman killed by horse got through immoderate request. (Cf. Q338, Q557.)Boy who threw stones at clerics killed by thrown stone. (Cf. Q227.)Person drinks poison he prepared for another Man falls dead when he sees his sons whom he has reared in sin all killed

wander